📊Group | 📌 |
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📊Size | Large📌 |
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📊Utilization | Hunting and coursing dog which hunts the game by sight. Skilled in coursings and race tracks, yielding good results particularly in longer distances. Also a very good companion and loyal watch dog |
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✨Appearance | The breed gives the impression of strength, with a very strongly developed bone structure and musculature. It has an elegant appearance. |
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🖍️Nicknames | Magyar Agár Hungarian Sighthound |
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🌐Country of origin | Hungary |
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⌛Lifespan, years | 12 - 14 |
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📏Height | 60 cm - 70 cm |
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⚖Weight | 22 kg - 30 kg |
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🌡Temperament | Untiring, full of stamina, fast, tough, and robust. Excellent on the race-course; faster than the Greyhound on some distances. Somewhat reserved by nature, but not shy, sensible, intelligent, and faithful. |
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📜History | Origin: Hungary. The breed is an original hunting breed with roots going back to when the Magyars conquered the country, as proven by archaeological findings of skull bones. In the 19th century, it was crossed with different sighthound breeds to increase speed. |
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